- [Instructor] An important note about AMIs…is how we go about updating them…and really from a security standpoint,…what's going to happen as soon as you deploy them.…AWS takes charge of making sure…that any of the Windows AMIs are fully updated and patched…within five days of the Patch Tuesday events.…Now that means that they're powering up the AMIs.…They're going through the whole patching process…and then they stop it.…They re-bundle the AMIs and it's available for us to use.…

The challenge here is that…once you launch an instance from that AMI,…it's up to you to keep it up to date…and that's because think again,…it's kind of like a template…or think about it as a piece of paper.…If I routinely keep a particular piece of paper updated…and then I hand it to you as a copy,…well I can't update the paper…that's in your hands any longer.…The same thing applies here.…Once you deploy an instance from an AMI,…you'll have to go through the process of setting up…the particular patching process.…

Now it's recommended the first thing you do…

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3/12/2018

Move your infrastructure to the cloud. Learn the primary IaaS components of Amazon Web Services so that you can procure, configure, and deploy the right services for your organization. Instructor Brian Eiler explains the functions of each major product while diving into the aspects of implementation and troubleshooting. He covers Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), and storage, including S3 and Elastic Block Store (EBS). By the end of the course, you'll have a thorough understanding of AWS IaaS options and be prepared to answer questions from the AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate) exam.